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Author Sulkin, Tracy.

Title Issue politics in Congress / Tracy Sulkin.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.
Contents Electoral challenges and legislative responsiveness -- A theory of issue uptake -- The nature of campaign and legislative agendas -- Assessing uptake -- Who responds?: explaining individual variation in uptake -- Patterns of responsiveness in Congress -- The electoral impacts of uptake -- Uptake and public policy -- Elections, governance, and representation.
Summary This book explores how legislators respond to their electoral challengers' critiques. The conventional wisdom is that winners ignore their challengers, but Sulkin shows that their campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of legislators' behavior in office.
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Subject United States. Congress -- Elections.
United States. Congress.
Elections.
États-Unis. Congress -- Élections.
USA Congress.
Political planning -- United States.
Political planning.
United States.
Representative government and representation -- United States.
Representative government and representation.
Legislators -- United States -- Attitudes.
Legislators.
Public opinion -- United States.
Public opinion.
Political leadership -- United States.
Political leadership.
Political campaigns -- United States.
Political campaigns.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sulkin, Tracy. Issue politics in Congress. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005008116
ISBN 0511140010 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780511140013 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780511140785 (electronic book)
0511140789 (electronic book)
0521855217 (Cloth)
9780521855211
0521671329
9780521671323

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